The apartments vary in price from 14 million euros to 51 million euros. Whether that is affordable for the common man is another matter. In addition to a swimming pool, sports center, spa with sauna and a lounge with outdoor terrace, the skyscraper is primarily intended for living. With a width-to-height ratio of 1:24, it is the world’s thinnest skyscraper. The Steinway Tower is only 18 meters wide. In addition to its height, the building is particularly striking for its thin design. The facade of terracotta, bronze and glass recalls the art deco history of the city. With the design, SHoP Architects has paid tribute to the classic skyscrapers of New York. The new skyscraper at Central Park in New York is located at 111 west 57th street to be precise.
Steinway Tower: a bizarrely luxurious, tall and thin skyscraper To put it in perspective, the Steinway Tower is 435 meters high.
The Empire State Building was built in 1932 and was the tallest building in the world for 40 years. In addition, tall buildings were seen symbolizing power and greatness. Cities grew explosively and the skyscraper phenomenon was the solution to the lack of living space for all people who moved to the city. At the beginning of the twentieth century, they also sprang up like mushrooms in other cities. Project developer Hayes Davidson now offers a unique view of the tower.Īt the end of the nineteenth century, the world’s first skyscrapers were built in New York and Chicago. The Steinway Tower, as the building is called, is the world’s thinnest skyscraper and the second tallest residential building in the world. It is only 3.9 meters in diameter, with a height-to-width ratio of over 40:1.In New York, a bizarrely high and especially thin skyscraper has recently been erected at the Central Park, designed by SHoP Architects. That title currently belongs to the i360 coastal observation tower in Brighton, UK. While Steinway Tower may be incredibly slender for a residential tower, it’s definitely not the thinnest tower in the world. Studio apartments start at $7.75 million, while the triples penthouse at the top is priced at an eye-watering $66million. Steinway Tower may hold the title of the world’s skinniest skyscraper, but the prices of housing in the recently inaugurated edifice are anything but slim. None of that has been reported in Steinway Tower, though. In September of 2021, the tower’s condo board sued developers for failing “to properly design and build the building for its remarkable height,” which led to it causing “horrible and obtrusive noise and vibrations” in homes. Case in point, the 432 Park Avenue Tower, which has been in the news for a bunch of quirks reported by many of its A-list residents. But despite offering residents gorgeous views of their urban surroundings, these skyscrapers can also be problematic. The trick is to design them so that the residents never actually feel the movement.Īlso known as pencil towers, these super-skinny skyscrapers first became popular in 1970s’ Hong Kong, but they are now becoming mainstream in the US as well. As structural engineers Rowan Williams Davis and Irwin told the NY Times in 2015, a 1,000-foot-tall tower will sway from a few inches on a typical windy day to two feet on a rare 100-mile-per-hour wind day. For comparison, Steinway Tower is as wide as a bowling alley is long.Īlthough Steinway Tower is constructed out of the world’s strongest concrete, it is not immune to the phenomenon affecting virtually all skyscrapers – swaying. It’s so thin that The Guardian newspaper has dubbed it “the coffee stirrer”.
Despite standing a dizzying 1,428-feet-tall, Steinway Tower is just 60 feet wide. Not only is it the third-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere – after One World Trade Center (1,776 feet) and Central Park Tower (1,550 feet) – but it’s actually the most slender skyscraper in the world. Steinway Tower is an impressive architectural achievement.
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